The forty-three-page document was explosive. The Mirror highlighted ‘eye-catching measures’ to ‘renationalise Britain’s energy industry, railways and the Royal Mail’, and spending pledges of ‘£6 billion a year extra for the NHS and £1.6 billion a year for social care’. Describing it as Labour’s ‘most left-wing election manifesto in a generation’, the paper reported, ‘University tuition fees will be abolished entirely, and town halls ordered to build 100,000 new council houses a year under a new Department for Housing.’ The Telegraph characterised the policy platform as taking Britain ‘back to
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